Gypsy is a gpsd replacement, used by OpenMoko "FSO" distribution.
Compiles and runs; not yet tested with an actual GPS connected (left my puck GPS at home this week). $ more pkg/DESCR Gypsy is a GPS multiplexing daemon which allows multiple clients to access GPS data from multiple GPS sources concurrently. Gypsy uses D-Bus to notify clients about location changes, sitting on the system bus, issuing signals as the GPS data changes. This design allows clients to only be notified about the changes they care about and ignore the rest. Gypsy has fine grained signals, so a client only interested in position changes will not be woken up for any other changes like, for example, satellite detail changes. Gypsy is designed to be usable on all manner of systems, from low powered devices (such as Nokia N810 and Openmoko Neo) to regular high powered desktop systems. As the signals it emits are fine grained applications are woken up only when they absolutely need to be, keeping power requirements to a minimum. Gypsy was designed to fix "the numerous design flaws found in GPSD". These are compiled at http://gypsy.freedesktop.org/why-not-gpsd.html. Included with Gypsy is libgypsy which is a GObject based C wrapper for the D-Bus API making writing clients very simple, although any language with D-Bus bindings can be used to write a Gypsy client (See simple-gps-python.py in the Gypsy sources for an example written in Python). -------------------------- Port is at http://www.darwinsys.com/openbsd/myports/gypsy.tar.gz
